Things don't go as planned!

When our tom cat "Claw brought home a feral female cat so it could have her babies born in our barn, he had no idea of the problems it would cause. Things were fine for him at the start until she started chasing him out of the barn. When it came feeding time, he was glad to share. I thought like he must have thought that having his own female would reduce his prowling around for other females. Not so! He kept up his habits and as the children grew, she had three kittens but as they grew, she chased one of them off, we assumed it was the male of the litter and were shocked to discover one of the that we called CeeCee was a male when he turned around on the porch. Instead of being something special, our tom cat found he was on the outs with the cats in the barn. I don't know where he sleeps now in the cold weather after giving up his home. I do know when I go to feed them, it is a scramble to get the wet food and I have to keep the other cats away because he is used to eating his food nice and slow. They gulp down theirs and want his making me stand guard until he eats. Tonight, he didn't want to go to the barn to eat because it is such a hassle for him but I don't want to feed him on the front porch. The other night, I dropped a little food for him by the back door so he could eat in peace whereas the others rushed to the barn to get what they call good food, the wet stuff. Being so many, I give them dry food as well then the wet stuff but they ignore the dry food until they have ate all the wet stuff I brought, then they eat the dry stuff. The female feral cat, we named Cleo, she is always trying to drive the others away and keep all the wet stuff for herself. She even tries to drive away Claw so he can't eat. I know he didn't plan on this happening. He lost his home and has to share his food!
Just like my books, I'm sure he didn't think things would turn out this way but it did.
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Feeling Great!

   Yesterday's blog received a lot of views. I guess by Indie writers that needed a pick me up and a pat on the back for their efforts no matter how much they get down for the low sales volume of their books. The pick me up writing also worked on me. I felt better after writing the article. I even touched my latest works "Chronicles of the Marauder" besides blogging about a couple of my books. "A Stranger Comes Crawling", my science fiction book about an alien coming to Earth and marrying a human being. I blog about my other book on the same site called "T.T. Gristman" Time Traveler! I also blogged about one of the "Lightning in the Tunnel Series" Called "A Need for Lightning" it is a story about Brad and his wives going into space. It was the one that spawned the book "A Stranger Comes Crawling".
If you haven't read the series, no worry, you can start with "A Need for Lightning" or it prequel "Changes a Bullet Makes" They are both set in one possible future for humanity.
   Life deals everyone hard blows especially in writing by an unknown but I keep spreading the word and some day it will happen! That is the optimist in me speaking. I have always looked on the bright side of everything. That is why I can smile and move on.
   What do you do to put a smile on your face? Today is our anniversary and my lovely wife's birthday. So I don't want to spend too much time on this blog. I added links to three of my books so if you are looking for reading material, they are there!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009I3R9Z4 in this link you can find both ebook and paperback for A Stranger comes crawling.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009E9DQZE for my time travel book both ebook and paperback
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AHLS3RY for A Need for Lightning
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A little Frustration!

   Yesterday on Linkened- Writer's Network I saw where a writer posted his frustration about lack of book sales. I know how he feels but if he thought just because he wrote a good book that immediately it would become a best seller, he is in writing for the wrong reasons. Very few actually hit the best seller unless you are a big named author or word of mouth gets your sales to slowly climb. Then people start noticing your book. For an unknown to have high books sales it takes a lot of time regardless of how good the book is. I know there are millions of authors out there trying to do the same things. Get on the best seller list! But most authors plug along hoping some people will read their work and like it. Not get frustrated and want to give up. Me. I love to write and being retired that keeps my brain active even though the only thing getting a work out is my mind, eyes and fingers. The rest of my body, I have to depend on the exercise machine to keep it in shape.
   His biggest complaint was only making a couple of dollars a week off sales. That is better than nothing and should tell him that slowly the word about his book is getting out. One day fortune might smile upon him and sales pick up but he has to continue to plug away using social media and whatever else he can find to get the word out. Continue to improve his writing skills and maybe his next book will be the one that gets noticed and his sales will increase.
   We all are in this race together to get the word out. My advice to that writer is you have to stay in the race to win. Remember the Hare and the Turtle, some people jump out of the starting gate with great hoopla and looks like they will finish first but then it fizzles out and the turtle just plods along and eventually wins the race. For all us unknowns, we are the turtles and must keep plodding along to the finish line! Have a good day and keep plodding! Or is it blogging along?
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One Dead Alien

Besides blogging my new release "Brandi's Nightmare" among my other books. I am still writing on the "Chronicles of the Marauder" but my mind every once in a while jumps to the sequel to "A Stranger Comes Crawling" so I write a little on it. I finally came up with a name for it "One Dead Alien" unless I change it before publishing. I like that title it is different like my books.
Today, I'm not really in the writing mood so I decided to blog a little to see if that would motivate me. That is why I'm writing this! LOL

But I can not seem to get in the mood so I will make this short and sweet throwing in a couple of pictures and links. I think IndiesUnlimited will publish the announcement of my book "Brandi's Nightmare" in a few days. That would be nice if they tell the world about it even though I know most that read that site are writers themselves and will very unlikely buy my book. It is on Amazon at Http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B50XLFU the paperback will be on there soon but right now it is only available at http://createspace.com/dp/4145887 Take a look at it along with my SiFi and timetravel books!

 my time travel book

 my SiFi

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The day after Publishing

The euphoria has died down now that my latest book is published on Amazon and Createspace. "Brandi's Nightmare" went live yesterday. The paperback will go live on Amazon in a few days but anyone can get it on Createspace right now. Now comes the hard part, trying to get people to read it. I did some of the usual things, Blogging, etc, but I know it is a long hard road to get people to read it because there is so many choices out there and so many new authors. I am undaunted in my task of getting the word out! Do you face the same problems? Paying for a publicist is not in my budget so I will have to do it myself.

I will add the links to those sites that now have it available if anyone that reads it so desires to purchase a copy. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B50XLFU for the ebook. For the paperback http://www.createspace.com/dp/4145887  I priced both books low to enable the readers to afford a copy. Only $2.99 for the ebook and $12.49 for the paperback.
Now on to talking about other things. I placed my "Changes a Bullet Makes" as free today and Saturday on KPD select! Hoping to get readers caught up in my series called "Lightning in the Tunnel" and maybe they will start to follow the series and get caught up in it. I am still rewriting the second book after I took the Original book called "Lightning in the Tunnel, In the Beginning" off the market because i was unhappy with the story. I replaced it with two books because it was too long to keep as one book after the changes. The first book is out called "Lightning in the Tunnel Begins" and the second one is called "Lightning in the Tunnel-Rescue" is still being rewritten. I bounce back and forth between it and my new SiFi called "Chronicles of the Marauder" that is more of my focus right now!
I feel in my bones that 2013 will be the year when one of my books hit the best seller list but it could be arthritis I'm feeling! LOL
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It's finally out!

I was surprised when "Brandi's Nightmare" came back from editing with only a few corrections and changes recommended. I published it right away on Kindle and started working on publishing it on Createspace to get the paperback out there since I have not bothered with looking for a traditional publisher for that book since it is not in my normal genre. It was my first and most likely my last unless it becomes a best seller of course!
Some have commented on my photo that it should be more professionally done but I like the jagged look of the picture. It fits my personality and writing style. LOL Now that Brandi is out, I can concentrate on writing my "Chronicles of the Marauder" so i can get it out later this year!
Since I like working on two or three books at a time, I am indecisive about whether I should start on the "Planet of the Midnight Mists" or go back to my western "Saddle Spur". I feel like I should go to the western since it is also out of my genre but I like jumping back and forth from one genre to another!

I may ask Kate to go ahead and create me a cover for both stories so which ever I finish first, I can blog on and talk about more! I feel it is important that in my blogs or talking that I have a picture so my readers can become familiar with it. What do you think?
It has been nice chatting with you!Talk back to me, I'm listening! My email address is agmoye.moye406@gmail.com I am on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Agmoye or just comment on this post. I will get back to you sooner or later!

Another cup of coffee, needed!

I had to get my second cup of coffee trying to kick start my brain so I could write this. I was up late last night and slow about getting to my writing. Yesterday, I spent most of the day cleaning out my hayloft, didn't know I had so much junk stored up there. But I will get it all out sooner or later to convert it into a guest room. Since we don't have any horses, no need for a hayloft.
Now back to my writing. I haven't written much for the past three days. don't know why but I just seem to be pausing in my writing of "Chronicles of the Marauder". I have written the next few pages in my head but have yet to put it down. I'm spending a lot of time reading and answering or commenting on my emails. That is fine with me, keep them coming! Since joining Linkened (Wrtier's Network) and A.S.M.S.G, I have a lot more distractions but like I said, that is okay with me.
Brandi's Nightnmare is still in editing, it looks like it won't be out until the end of February of 2013.  I hope there is not a lot of corrections or changes that need to be made, but that is part of writing.

Except for three bad reviews before I changed it even more, Lightning in the Tunnel Begins is selling okay. Maybe, the bad reviews has provoked reader's interest in what the fuss is all about. The grammar one complained about is just my style of writing and I'm not going to change that. Maybe the sex parts are what has reader's interested in since the success of Fifty Shades of Gray!  I don't know but I like it! Check it out for yourself, I have the complete novel for only ninety-nine cents on Amazon and Smashwords! Paperback is only $14.99!

Now, I need to get back to my writing! Have a nice day, talk to me! I'm Listening!